Originally Posted by
maybee
wtf
love doesn't = strength or weakness and she loved her prince man.
It has more to do with the fact that her plot doesn't involve becoming the male leads arm candy. In truth Ashe is the main character of her story and her plot doesn't really involve romance outside of Rasler, who in a nice subversion of the "stuffed in fridge trope" is gender reversed. He's used to manipulate her, but it's not like she's spending the whole game trying to bring him back (X-2 Yuna), nor getting some guys attention cause she mistakenly loves him (Tifa and Rinoa) or watching her story ultimately wind up about getting together with the guy after her plot points are usually resolved early and shown she can't do anything without the lead male (Garnet and FFX Yuna) so I would say that Ashe is the serious curve ball of female heroines that the series really needed; and I am a bit sad she lost to basically a stock character we've seen already five times before her.
